For all the songs in Haruhi Suzumiya. Or the numerous OST, since epic moments deserve epic music, and a show about aliens, time travelers, ESPers, and Badass Normal preventing a Little Miss Almighty from ending the world would have epic parts everywhere.
- "God Knows".
- Featuring the Badass Bookworm as a technically gifted guitarist pretty much for the hell of it. Most awesome thing in the history of anime? Quite possibly.
- Also was responsible for making Haruhi the definitive Bunny Girl in all of anime. She even got a toy of her in the bunny suit which has the guitar she plays as an accessory.
- The version from the English dub is also really cool. Rather than writing a new song to fill in, they largely stick to a rough translation of the lyrics. In addition, this version is arguably more faithful to how Haruhi singing is described in the book: not perfect, but certainly more than enough to thrill up the crowd and make people want to buy CDs to taste the refined version.
- Masaaki Endoh, you have new rivals. Their names are Marco and ShowZ.
- The Genderbend version is also this, and is dripping with sexiness (as if the original wasn't).
- Lost My Music as well.
- Cristina Vee's fandub is so good!
- Equally awesome is her rendition of the second season theme song, Super Driver.
- Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4 Movement 4 from the climax of "Day of Sagittarius III" and Mahler's Symphony #8 Part 1 from the climax of the first season. Both of them are also awesome outside of this context, naturally, but this is where they accompanied Moments of Awesome. Also the piece that played during the battle, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad', The Invasion.
- Yuki, Muon, Madobe Nite. Obviously Yuki's Image Song, this can be very surprising if you didn't already know that Minori Chihara's a solo artist.
- If you count the image songs in, you can add Kyon's Hare Hare Yukai, COOL EDITION from Asakura and SELECT from Nagato.
- Asakura's other song, Koyubi de Gyutsu. The complete opposite of COOL EDITION, this one is about the sweet and gentle person she pretends to be. Sweet Dreams Fuel in pure form.
- Mikuru's Image Song, Toki no Puzzle, probably should be under Heartwarming/Tear Jerker territory. She sings about how her mission sadly keeps her from fulfilling her desire to be with Kyon. Mikuru finally gets a chance to rock out like her fellow Brigade girls with Etto Returns Shite Revenge.
- Haruhi herself gets a particularly rockin' one with the piano-and-guitar-driven "Parallel Days", Tsuruya-san shows off her cute voice with "Seishun Ii Janai Ka", which stands out with a great Chinese string section, and Itsuki's purring sex of a voice translates to music with the fun, earwormy "Maggaare Spectacle", which also has little voice snippets from Yuki and Mikuru!
- You may not care about the character much or even remember her. But Emiri's Fixed Mind is gorgeous and heart-touching.
- Another one from Tsuruya: Megassa Koukishin. Gentle, thoughtful and adorable.
- Okay, it's official from the season 2 songs — anything Yuki or Kyon sings will always be awesome.
- Also Tsuruya-san.
- And Haruhi herself.
- "Koi No Mikuru Densetsu" from the first (0th) episode is made of win... and here's what it sounds like in Haruhi's head.
- One of the best songs in the soundtrack is also one of the simplest: Itsumo no Fuukei, which translates to "Everyday's View". It's known for being that piece of music heard when Kyon talks about no longer believing in aliens, time travelers, and espers in the first episode (in chronological order; it's the second episode in the other order).
- "Oi Oi", the "What has Haruhi got us into this time?" music.
- "Comical Hustle". What better way to introduce how eccentric Haruhi really is than with a ska-rock montage?
- For awesome BGM, "Nagato no Kokuhaku" (Nagato's leitmotif) and "The Mysterious" also come to mind.
- As do "Kouchou Kouchou" and "Higeki no Heroine".
- Nanika ga okashii. It's the "Nothing can go wrong" music.
- The Nagato Vs. Asakura music, which is absolutely fucking badass AWESOME as background track.
- Another awesome battle soundtrack: Kamadouma (the Cave Cricket battle music).
- "Kyomuteki Kuukan", which plays in the closed spaces.
- The OP and ED are the OP and ED for a reason. You cannot deny the opening bells of Bouken Desho Desho? nor have you not sprained something trying to dance to Hare Hare Yukai.
- The new opening of the second season, "Super Driver". Fuck yeah.
- Understandably overshadowed by those two songs, but Tomare!, the second season's ending, is awesome in its own right as well.
- Hare Hare Yukai - Kyon + Kyonko Duet! Given, Fans can be quite stupid sometimes and then there are things like this...
- The movie has a Soundtrack Of Awesome.
- The theme song, "Tender Oblivion/Yasashii Boukyaku" by Yuki’s seiyu Minori Chihara. Granted, it's not so much "awesome" as it is "extremely touching", but a song this good needs to be aknowledged, dammit! The 'Sonority' version of Tender Oblivion is far more powerful. It's an absolute Tear Jerker, but this rendition just cranks that up. It's the least busy out of the renditions, and all that is left is the beautiful singing itself.
- "Rekishi no Tenkanten", or "The Song you usually would associate with a Final Fantasy One-Winged Angel Boss Fight, right before you get beaten to the ground".
- Kodoku sekai no hirogari is a haunting woodwind track, perfectly capturing the isolation and sadness Kyon feels in the alternate world.
- One particularly memorable track: Ready, which plays while Kyon decides if he wants to try and restore the old timeline or not.
- Asakura Ryouko to Iu Josei. Guess who's back...note
- First Good-Bye. Originally from the last episode of the radio drama but re-released as part of the "Imaginary ENOZ" LP.
- When I Was in Love from the ENOZ album just kills everything else.
- Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou is essentially a concert of songs from the anime turned into classical music (and also very, very awesome). A few songs have already been mentioned on this page, but listen to the version of Lost My Music to be completely blown away.
- "Ryuurei Naru Makimodoshi Sekai" that plays at the end of "The Endless Eight". A beautiful piano composition as Kyon desperately tries to figure out how to stop Haruhi from resetting time once again. Even those who can't stand the polarizing arc can't help but admire the song.